On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:11:11AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
| On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:02:17AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
|
| > In any case, I guess the fact that auric has been running Sparc Linux
| > for some time now (more than a year?) is a testament to how solid Linux
| > on Sparc is. The workload on auric must be pretty high at all times,
| > from all points of view (network, CPU, disk I/O, etc.)
|
| It's definitely a workhorse, and it tasks most of the primary kernel
| subsystems.
|
| For those interested, auric.debian.org (aka ftp-master.debian.org) is an
| UltraSPARC 60 with dual 450mhz UltraSPARC II's and 2 gigs of RAM.
| Attached is a Netra A1000 RAID array, with 10 36gig drives (~245 gigs of
| RAID 5 with 2 hotspares).
|
| It's processes include postgresql (which handles the database of all our
| packages, 10's of thousands of them). All incoming packages built by
| developers are uploaded to this machine, which processes the incoming
| packages every 15 minutes, placing them into a queue. Once a day, it
| moves all of the packages into the main archive on the RAID, regenerates
| the Packages listings, and begins a mirror push to the tier 1 mirrors.
|
| That may not sound like much, but it can easily kill most machines, and
| will generally pop up some strange bugs.
Sounds convincing to me. I'll go for the 2.4.19-pre8 then.
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